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As a grug-brained developer, I love the spirit of this, but it's kinda hard to read. Maybe the author can publish an English translation? :)

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grug think grugposting is part of the charm

Grug thinks there would be middle course keeping most of charm but less exhausting to read.

Exhausting make grug read more slowly and parse well.

https://github.com/reidjs/grug-dev-translation

Translated as best I could

This reminds me rather of a cross between "Code Monkey" (Jonathan Coulton song) and Film Crit Hulk Smash.

BE THANKFUL GRUG NO TYPE IN ALL CAPS LIKE FILM CRIT HULK, FILM CRIT HULK HAVE MANY THOUGHTFUL POINTS TO RAISE ABOUT FILMS SND STORIES BUT ALSO READING ALL CAPS FOR MORE THAN ABOUT ONE PARAGRAPH IS OUCHY

(Film Crit Hulk released a book; half of it was in all caps, the other half was the exact same text except in normal sentence case.)

On the other hand, I'd be interested in seeing a 'ten hundred most common words' version of it that dumps those complicated words like 'refactor'.

I might be willing to give this a shot. I appreciated the charm and humor in the original, but especially for readers who don't have English as a first language it probably gets in the way of the message.

Here are the first few sections: https://gist.github.com/raphlinus/f6b34f85d63c4b73a0242481ed...

I'll keep going if there's positive feedback, delete it if the author doesn't appreciate it.

This is so much easier to read, thank you

I like it. It still carries a little bit of whimsy and puts a smile on my face (while nodding).

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